Draft Work Programmes for 2026–2027 Now Available

Published on: 26/08/2025
These drafts are intended to help prepare in advance for upcoming calls for proposals. However, it is important to note that they are provisional documents and may be subject to changes. Only the documents published on the EU Funding and Tenders Portal once officially adopted by the EC are legally binding. For this reason, topics, their descriptions or scope, as well as budgets or call opening and closing dates, may be adjusted before final approval.
Below, we include links to the available documents:
🟢 Pillar I: Excellent Science
- European Research Council (ERC)
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (draft pending)
- Research Infrastructures (RI)
🔵 Pillar II: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
- Cluster 1: Health
Draft Implementing Decision – Work Programme 2026-2027 – Part 4 – Health - version 2 of 13/05/2025
- Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society
- Cluster 3: Civil Security for Society
- Cluster 4 - Digital Industy and Space
Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026-27 - Part 7. Digital, Industry and Space - version 2 - 28 05 2025
- Cluster 5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
- Cluster 6 - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Enviroment
🟢 Pillar III: Innovative Europe
- European Innovation Council (EIC)
https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/comitology-register/screen/documents/108642/2/consult?lang=en
🔵 Other Areas
- Missions UE
Draft Implementing Decision – Work Programme 2026-2027– part 12 Missions – version 2 - 20 May 2025
- Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area (WIDERA)
https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/comitology-register/screen/documents/107927/3/consult?lang=en
- New European Bauhaus
- Joint Research Centre (2025–2027 programme already published)
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC140049